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Academic freedom and the eye of power: the politics and poetics of open enclosures
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-13)Transparency is both a powerful idea and a technology of power associated with accountability, justice and democracy, which opposes the secretive and shadowy power of surveillance wielded by states and corporations. This ... -
Aesthetics and emotion in an organisational ethnography
(Inderscience, 2008-11)In this paper, I argue that an aesthetic approach can help us to better understand workplace ethnography. Ethnography is sensory by nature; it can incorporate a feeling of rightness and beauty in the experience of 'being-with' ... -
Arrive bearing gifts: Postcolonial Insights for development management
(Zed Books, 2008)Organizations working in the development sector play an important role in contemporary processes of globalization. The term globalization has many interpretations, but it tends to refer to a certain set of observed societal ... -
The art of democracy: constitutive power and the limits of dissensus
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-10-03)This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy, whereby consensualpractices are equated with political abdication. This way of framing ... -
At a crossroads: investigating automobility and its implications for local urban transport policy design
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2017-05-05)More people than ever before are living in urban settlements, increasing competition for living space, employment, food, water, and energy. Urbanisation poses many challenges, most notably meeting the basic health and ... -
Beyond ourselves: Passion and the dark side of identification in an ethical organization
(2010-09)How are organizational discourses enacted by people at work? In this article, instead of treating subjects as somewhat distinct from such discourses, I argue that the two are inescapably intertwined. The concept of 'ek-stasis' ... -
Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?
(2010)When British Paratroopers shot dead 13 people at a civil rights march in Derry on January 30, 1972 it dealt a hammer blow to British government claims of neutrality and moral authority in dealing with the escalating violence ... -
Bridging the gap: Using Veerman and Van Yperen s (2007) framework to conceptualise and develop evidence informed practice in an Irish youth work organisation
(Elsevier, 2016-04)While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van Yperen (2007) highlight the fact that little ... -
Bridging the gap: Using Veerman and Van Yperen's (2007) framework to conceptualise and develop evidence informed practice in an Irish youth work organisation
(2016-04)While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van Yperen (2007) highlight the fact that little ... -
The British Army in Northern Ireland. Encyclopedia of Ireland
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Caught in the Cultural Lag: The Stigma of Singlehood
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Childhood, biosocial power, and the anthropological machine : life as a governable process?
(Maney Online, 2014-11)This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of biosocial power, which is shown to be a ... -
Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface
(Elsevier, 2007)This article examines the relationship between new information and communication technologies and territorial boundaries through an analysis of online interaction oriented around a sectarian interface in north Belfast. It ... -
Connecting research and practice: Perspectives on the role of manualised programmes in youth work
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-12)While there is a strong movement in favour of the use of manual based programmes in the arena of social care, there is a view that such programmes are not applicable in the more fluid setting of youth work, which operates ... -
ConsEnSus: consumption, environment and sustainability
(EPA Ireland, 2015)Sustainable consumption is generally conceived as the use of goods and services that respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life, while minimising the use of natural resources, toxic materials, and emissions ... -
Consuming distance or (all) consuming work? The case of telework
(Routledge, 2014)The reality of anthropogenic climate change and the consequences for society and environment is of growing concern to many worldwide. Sustainable Development - development which addresses existing human needs while ... -
Dangerously Empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish Entrepreneur
(SAGE Journals Online, 2012-03)In this paper we build on Jones and Spicer's (2009) conceptualisation of the entrepreneur as an empty signifier. We explore the function of the signifier 'entrepreneurship' within a social context marked by crisis: Ireland ... -
Das neue Mobilitätsparadigma als Regulierungsansatz für die Wechselbeziehungen von Umwelt, Politik und Gesellschaft
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Developing (Tele)work? A multi-level sociotechnical perspective of telework in Ireland
(2016)The ubiquitous nature and use of technology in contemporary societies continues to transform lives and work environments. At the same time, transport continues to be a major source of harmful emissions. Telework has been ...